Royal Air Force personnel to train at Portsmouth and Cranfield
having been a strawberry mivvy for just over a year now and a non-graduate (supplementary list shag), I would contend, from my limited experience, that what counts most is professional experience (Pilot, Nav, ATC,Engineer) backed up with something else. That something else, in my very humble opinion, should be a language. If you are able to speak, French, German, Italian, Spanish etc, then the world is your oyster. Being a native English speaker, you already have an advantage in that most aviation regulations etc are written in English.
Forget Shriv, Stafford or Pompey. Get yourself an exchange, learn a European language and you will never regret it!
Forget Shriv, Stafford or Pompey. Get yourself an exchange, learn a European language and you will never regret it!
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I never thought I'd drag this moniker out of retirement, but here goes....
There is only one reason why KCL will not be providing the academic input into IOT - the so-called (and self confessed/obsessed) 'Dean'.
The rest of the KCL lecturers were a wonderful bunch of well-read, enthusiastic and engaging people who is was apleasure to work alongside; however, the 'Dean'! Well, I'm sure you can all read between the lines and smell a rant.
I hope that (as others have suggested) they are all able to cross-deck to the new Uni. As for his 'Deanship'........
There is only one reason why KCL will not be providing the academic input into IOT - the so-called (and self confessed/obsessed) 'Dean'.
The rest of the KCL lecturers were a wonderful bunch of well-read, enthusiastic and engaging people who is was apleasure to work alongside; however, the 'Dean'! Well, I'm sure you can all read between the lines and smell a rant.
I hope that (as others have suggested) they are all able to cross-deck to the new Uni. As for his 'Deanship'........
I really looked forward to all the KCL segments of the IOT course, they were well thoughtout, well delivered and [almost] all of the lecturers were very engaging. Would be a shame for future studes to miss out on that. IOT shouldn't solely be about beastings by the PTIs and jumping around in the mud with the Reg.
I never thought I'd drag this moniker out of retirement, but here goes....
There is only one reason why KCL will not be providing the academic input into IOT - the so-called (and self confessed/obsessed) 'Dean'.
The rest of the KCL lecturers were a wonderful bunch of well-read, enthusiastic and engaging people who is was apleasure to work alongside; however, the 'Dean'! Well, I'm sure you can all read between the lines and smell a rant.
I hope that (as others have suggested) they are all able to cross-deck to the new Uni. As for his 'Deanship'........
There is only one reason why KCL will not be providing the academic input into IOT - the so-called (and self confessed/obsessed) 'Dean'.
The rest of the KCL lecturers were a wonderful bunch of well-read, enthusiastic and engaging people who is was apleasure to work alongside; however, the 'Dean'! Well, I'm sure you can all read between the lines and smell a rant.
I hope that (as others have suggested) they are all able to cross-deck to the new Uni. As for his 'Deanship'........
The ones who want to cross-deck are cross-decking. A couple are thinking about staying with 'mother'. The Dean to whom you refer is no longer the Dean; hasn't been since before Christmas & isn't anything to do with KCL any more.
Last edited by Melchett01; 7th Sep 2012 at 19:11.
There are MBAs and there are MBAs, just are there are for BSc or BA - depends on what they are in and where you studied them. However, having a degree or Masters is better than nothing at all - it might be the thing that gets you to interview when not having one won't! So don't get all priggish about ex-Polytechnics and establishments with a lower reputation than the normal "red brick" Universities. Be happy that these schemes recognise some of our efforts and make it easier for military types to get a qualification that will attract an interview - you could be an Oxbridge Professor but still come over as a d!ck in the interview and be useless at work because you have no common sense!!!
However, I do believe that academia is a bit of a self licking lollypop in certain areas; almost as bad as some of the "management speak" exhibited here. So being a graduate of the "University of Service Life" should not be over looked.
iRaven
However, I do believe that academia is a bit of a self licking lollypop in certain areas; almost as bad as some of the "management speak" exhibited here. So being a graduate of the "University of Service Life" should not be over looked.
iRaven
Last edited by iRaven; 8th Sep 2012 at 08:29.